A Georgia medical malpractice lawsuit filed against a surgeon and a hospital in Georgia alleges that the plaintiff had gone into the hospital for what was supposed to be a same-day stay for a robotic hysterectomy but turned into a three-month hospital stay. She alleges that she was in a coma after the procedure and spent nearly three months in the ICU battling blood loss and infections. “I wasn’t actually going to the hospital initially thinking I was going to be a resident in its ICU following this procedure.”
The woman had a history of fibroids that caused pain and excessive bleeding that effected her work and every day life. She elected that the hysterectomy be performed using a surgical robot because she was told that the robotic hysterectomy would be minimally invasive and result in less pain and shorter recovery.
In a cellphone video allegedly from the surgeon to the woman’s husband after the procedure, the surgeon allegedly advised, “Well, what happened was we had some technical challenges and I couldn’t manipulate the uterus the way I wanted to so I couldn’t really get to the blood vessels the way I wanted to so I said uh…we just converted to just going straight taking it out through the vagina and we stopped the robot.”
The woman’s Georgia medical malpractice lawsuit reportedly contends that the surgeon negligently failed to recognize and treat active bleeding, and further alleges that the surgeon negligently removed one of the woman’s ovaries. She also alleges that the hospital failed to properly maintain its medical equipment.
The surgeon, who has since died, reportedly did not have medical malpractice insurance that would cover this claim.
The woman alleges that as a result of the incident, the mountain of medical bills she incurred resulted in her having to leave her home, she lost her job due to the long recovery period, and her marriage ended. She alleges that she suffers from PTSD, ongoing sepsis, and has other health issues as a result.
Robotic Hysterectomies
Hysterectomy for benign uterine pathology is one of the most common surgical procedures, with half a million cases each year in the United States. A shift to laparoscopic hysterectomies occurred in the 1990s. During the past 2 decades, robotic-assisted laparoscopic hysterectomy has been popularized as a standard minimally invasive procedure for the treatment of benign uterine pathology. The robotic platform allows for a magnified 3D view and improved manipulation using fully wristed instruments, thus improving the ergonomics of laparoscopic surgery, which was the inherent drawback of standard straight-stick laparoscopy. Currently, an estimated 65% of hysterectomies in the USA are performed using a minimally invasive approach, with up to 43% of laparoscopic surgeries done with robotic assistance.
If you or a loved one suffered harm (or worse) from medical negligence involving robotic hysterectomy in Georgia or in another U.S. state, you should promptly find a Georgia medical malpractice attorney, or a malpractice attorney in your state, who may investigate your robotic hysterectomy medical malpractice claim for you and represent you or your loved one in a robotic hysterectomy medical malpractice claim, if appropriate.
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